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Trump’s win is moving the Overton window rapidly in the US. Some people are going to be caught with their pyjamas down. The NYT and The View have caught the smell in the wind, and are trying to shift their tone. Trumpism, is now demonstrably the mainstream, and they risk either bankruptcy or irrelevance. The woke will soon be laughing stocks.
What does this mean in Canada? For Canda, just as for the rest of the developed West, the US sets the tone—more now than ever before, because we are so interconnected. Pierre Poilievre, in particular, has a tricky path. He needs to make rapid policy changes to more closely conform to Trump’s agenda, or start to look stale and conventional. He needs to make some striking new policy proposals to keep people’s excitement. He can’t just talk about the carbon tax.
This is a revolutionary period, and the revolution eats its children. You must race to stay in front of the parade, or be trampled by it.
Is Poilievre, and are the Conservatives, up to it? If not, Maxime Bernier might steal his thunder.
Trump’s drive to cut taxes and regulations and unleash oil
and gas is also going to force whomever is in government in Canada to do the
same. Otherwise investment will flood out of Canada into he US; the results
will be too obvious. Voters will not stand for it.
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